NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Opium nearly smoked out China, made Britain acquire tainted wealth, laid the foundation of the fortunes of many a notorious trading house, and made several early 19th-century ...

But, it will be said, India consumes 900,000 pounds of opium every year; surely so much could not be required for purely medicinal purposes. If abuse in the form of smoking has ceased, ...

In 1857 it occurred to Dr. Palmer at Ghazipur to treat malarial fever with an-arcotine derived from crude opium, instead of with quinine. He was remarkably successful, and the drag is now in ...

After the mid-18th century, when the British East India Co. was importing tea from China, few could have guessed that the industry would be revolutionized by a different plant: the opium poppy.

Currently, Afghanistan faces a worsening humanitarian crisis, intensified by mass refugee deportations from Pakistan and Iran ...

The British began exporting Indian opium to China around 1780, after establishing a trading foothold in that kingdom. In 1796, China prohibited the import and consumption of the substance.

OPIUM is the spontaneously coagulated latex which exudes when the partly ripened capsules of Papaver somniferum L. are lanced on the living plant. On exposure to air, the white, pale-yellow or ...

Tucked away in a lane in the southern end of India's financial capital, Mumbai, is a museum dedicated to the followers of one of the world's oldest religions, Zoroastrianism. The Framji Dadabhoy ...